Apperance: An old school 40's Brown pinstripe suit with red time and brown fedora. Roland is of average height with a very heavy build. He has a hooked noise and an annoyingly offset pencil mustanche.

Backstory: Roland Pennyforth always had a way with words. A way to make them the sweetest or most irritating thing you have ever herd in your life. As a linebacker on the highschool football team he always seemed to make the guy infront of him cower, in the ring he always managed to infuriate his oppent into swinging wildly, and as a used car salesmen he sold more lemons than a grocery store. Why? Because, as a very small child Roland found a strange ring outside in the woods. it glowed slightly and glimmered even though there was no light around. Thinking it to be some kind of hard candy, Roland swallowed it and immediately he gained its powers, for the ring he swallowed was The Intergalxtic Ring of Emotional Empathy!!! . While most would have used this power for the better meant of mankind, Roland use it to further his true calling in life and chief joy in life: trolling. He became an assassin under the name DuShawn Mandix after realizing violence done to someone who couldn't stop him was the ultimate form of trolling.

Specialty: Roland absorbed the powers of The Intergalxtic Ring of Emotional Empathy and thus can sense the feelings of everyone around him and is able to influance them as he wants thanks to the ring's latent powers. While no one is immune to his powers, the strong willed are able to endure influance longer. While Roland is able to tell what others feel, their feelings do not effect him emotionally unless he allows them to (ie: a little girls sadness may rub off on him but his foe's anger and fear will not). Roland is skilled in boxing, Greco-Roman wrestling, and marksmanship.

Name: Roland FoxNickname: SmokescreenAppearance: Smokescreen takes on the appearance of a rather young looking man, mid to late twenties at most, with dark brown hair and very unusual eyes- black sclera with red irises. Cybernetically enhanced eyes. His arms and legs are a slightly different coloration from the rest of his body. In civilian wear, he wears casual clothing of cargo pants, t-shirts, that sort of thing.

In the field he looks much different. Smokescreen wears a heavy modern military armor; his battle gear is built like a tank. It’s heavy, durable, and fits him comfortably. The high-tech armor has a notable white headgear, with four glowing eyes. His constantly present gear is a 10mm pistol and a Raging Bull magnum, both in easy to reach positions, a grenade launcher, a large variety of explosive grenades and gas canisters, and a wrist-mounted compressed machine gun that folds for ease of use.

Backstory:Roland Fox was a very special kind of soldier. In a secret division of the Special Forces, Roland was given enormous amounts of privileges, enhancements, missions of a unique variety, and training. His entire squad was outfitted with some of the greatest bio- and cybernetic-enhancements currently in development.

The rumor goes is that the entire division was to be shut down and the squad liquefied. According to the rumors, most of the squad did in fact not die. Instead, many, many soldiers died trying to kill THEM.

So the rumor goes.

Nowadays, Smokescreen is a well-known contract hit man with not a single subtle bone in his body. He goes in, raises nine kinds of unholy hell, then leaves. He’s well known for being shockingly easy to work with.

Cybernetic enhancements – Smokescreens entire body has been enhanced greatly. Despite his heavy looking armor, he’s as agile as can be, and brutally strong. Capable of superhuman feats of strength and dexterity, he’s one tough cookie. However, even he has his limits. He might be able to stop a car in its tracks, but he won’t be stopping an 18 wheeler or anything. It’s due to this strength that he is capable of carrying around some seriously nasty pieces of metal.

.50 Cal M2 Machine Gun – This monster of a gun is one of Smokescreen’s favorites. With the strength to wield it, he gladly carries it into battle and unleashes a hell of deadly machine gun fire on his enemies, all from the cover of smoke.

Armor – Smokescreens armor is top of the line. Small arms got nothing on this thing, with small caliber bullets dinging off it harmlessly. Shotguns and submachine guns have similar issues, but past that, and Smokes isn’t going to want to stay in the heat for very long. Built tough, it’s designed to take hits, but continued fire is going to wear it down, but that’s what the smoke is for. Built in to the armor is a heat suppression system, designed to make him invisible to heat sensors, to better aid his staple tactic.

Grenade launcher – This grenade launcher, which is mounted on his arm, is one of his main weapons and something he’s never without. Modular, it’s capable of being modified to fire a variety of rounds, from explosive, fragmentation, smoke, tear, and other kinds of grenades. In addition, it can fire special heavy rounds designed to push off intense heat to burn through armor. It doesn’t cause a wide area of damage, but it gets through what it hits, and if it hits a person, he’s doomed. It’s a little hard to aim against small targets.

Headgear – Smokes headgear is designed to do a large variety of things. Particularly, it allows him to operate in smoke with no worries whatsoever. His enhanced eyes work with the headgear to use a variety of sights, from heat to UV, to get a good grip on the battlefield. Its internal gas-mask keeps his lungs safe from his own gasses. The built-in targeting system aids in combat, as well as a variety of other miscellaneous systems.

Assault rifle – A high quality assault rifle, Smokes uses it when he doesn’t feel like lugging his monster of a machine gun with him.

He has a large variety of ammo and standard military equipment at his safe house, as well as a truck that he uses to drive around in. The truck is secretly armored cause, hey, you never know.

Nanosword – The design for the experimental nanosword was a blade that could cut through any material. The actual result was less impressive. Nonetheless, this blade can pierce through heavy armor with decent success and can turn weaker things into ribbons. Smokes carries it into a fight if he thinks that someone might be getting up close.

Right. Well, I might be able to get out the thread tonight. Cross your fingers.

Also, as for the question on how characters will know if the Target is the real one, the only way to be sure is a DNA scan. This means that no one can be sure unless they have a sample of the real target's DNA.

Also, the "Target" at the party isn't the real target, but the assassins won't know that until he dies, which will have an obvious effect which will be secret until then.